Paul Zaich

Zeich. Well done. Thank you.

Zeich. Well done. Thank you.

Sure. So I've been a software engineer for about 10 years. Recently in the last year or so, transitioned into an engineering management role. But I've worked at a number of different Small startups.

Sure. So I've been a software engineer for about 10 years. Recently in the last year or so, transitioned into an engineering management role. But I've worked at a number of different Small startups.

I joined Checkr in 2017 when the company was at about 100 employees, 30 engineers, contributed as an engineer for a couple of years to our team, and then have recently transitioned, like I said, into an engineering management role.

I joined Checkr in 2017 when the company was at about 100 employees, 30 engineers, contributed as an engineer for a couple of years to our team, and then have recently transitioned, like I said, into an engineering management role.

Sure. So Checkr was founded in 2014. Daniel and Jonathan are founders. I had worked in the on-demand space, another company, and had discovered that it was very difficult to integrate background checks into their onboarding process.

Sure. So Checkr was founded in 2014. Daniel and Jonathan are founders. I had worked in the on-demand space, another company, and had discovered that it was very difficult to integrate background checks into their onboarding process.

Background checks tend to be a very important final safety step for a lot of these companies to make sure that their platform is going to be safe and secure for customers. their customers. And so in 2014, they started an automated background check company.

Background checks tend to be a very important final safety step for a lot of these companies to make sure that their platform is going to be safe and secure for customers. their customers. And so in 2014, they started an automated background check company.

And initially, the biggest selling point was that Checkr abstracted away a lot of the complexity of background check process, collecting candidate information, and then executing that flow and exposing that via an API that was developed in a Sinatra app. And three years later, in 2017, I just joined about four or five months before this particular incident happened.

And initially, the biggest selling point was that Checkr abstracted away a lot of the complexity of background check process, collecting candidate information, and then executing that flow and exposing that via an API that was developed in a Sinatra app. And three years later, in 2017, I just joined about four or five months before this particular incident happened.

Fast forward to that point, we were running, I'd say, a few million checks a year for a variety of different customers. Most of those customers use our API, like I said before, to interface with the candidate on their side in their own application.

Fast forward to that point, we were running, I'd say, a few million checks a year for a variety of different customers. Most of those customers use our API, like I said before, to interface with the candidate on their side in their own application.

I did not. There are a lot of very important guidelines and stipulations governed by the Federal Credit Reporting Act that make sure that you have to have a permissible purpose for running a background check. So in this case, most of our customers are using the permissible purpose around employment as the reason for actually running that check.

I did not. There are a lot of very important guidelines and stipulations governed by the Federal Credit Reporting Act that make sure that you have to have a permissible purpose for running a background check. So in this case, most of our customers are using the permissible purpose around employment as the reason for actually running that check.

So, like I said, in 2017, Checkr at this point was a pretty important component of a number of customers onboarding process. But we had started off small and things grew quickly. In a lot of ways, we were just trying to keep the lights on and scale the system along with our customers as they continue to grow. On-demand is growing a lot in this time as well.

So, like I said, in 2017, Checkr at this point was a pretty important component of a number of customers onboarding process. But we had started off small and things grew quickly. In a lot of ways, we were just trying to keep the lights on and scale the system along with our customers as they continue to grow. On-demand is growing a lot in this time as well.

So in 2017, we were doing some fairly routine changes to a data model. I wasn't directly involved with that, but we were changing something from an integer ID to a UUID and the references, and there were some backfills that needed to happen. And so an engineer executed a script on a Friday afternoon, which is always a great idea to do.

So in 2017, we were doing some fairly routine changes to a data model. I wasn't directly involved with that, but we were changing something from an integer ID to a UUID and the references, and there were some backfills that needed to happen. And so an engineer executed a script on a Friday afternoon, which is always a great idea to do.